Inter-Application Communication on Windows

[Dave]

Hi,

This looks like it's the way to get/put data from/to applications, but:

> However, on the Mac I have a handler for the "appleEvent" message,  
> this gets called asynchronously whenever the other application send  
> an AppleEvent. Can I achieve the same or similar under Windows?  
> e.g. AppA gets a Message sent to it when there is a message ready  
> to be read or some such? The only other way I can think of  
> achieving this would be for the main application to periodically  
> execute a "poll" handler which calls the External Command and read  
> the message(s) from a queue?


Given two applications, AppA and AppB. AppB needs to send a message  
to AppA so it executes a "write to process' command. How does AppA  
know that a message has been sent? On the Mac, the "appleEvent" will  
be sent to AppA, but on Windows, AppA would have to be executing a  
"read from process" command to be able to get the data. Also if I  
have a number of Applications (AppC, AppD, AppE) that want to  
communicate with AppA then I'd have to be executing 4 "read from  
process" command simultaneously, how could this be implemented?

Thanks a lot
All the Best
Dave

On 13 Feb 2008, at 16:19, Thierry wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been working on a way of getting two RunRev Standalone's to  
>> communicate with each other.
>> Any ideas or suggestions gratefully appreciated.
>
>
> Well, I've done almost this years ago...
>
> open socket, read/write from socket...
> or
> open process, read/write from process...
>
> All this is in the Doc.
>
> HTH,
> Regards,
> Thierry
>
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